DBusiness Magazine Biotech Boom As Ann Arbor begins to fulfill its potential as a dynamic biotech hub, the broader impact could be profound. Cameron McCausland // Photograph by Austin Phillips There are few circumstances that better illustrate the importance of biomedical innovation than what’s happening in society right now. Across the country and around the world, the potential for new ideas, new medicines, and new therapeutic options to, quite literally, change lives has perhaps never been more apparent. Biotech breakthroughs require not only cutting-edge scientific and medical resources and expertise, but the necessary entrepreneurial energy to create and sustain them. It’s a rare and valuable combination.